Roseburg review. [volume] (Roseburg, Or.) 1885-1920, 1887-06-24
COMMCNCATION.
WASHINGTON. June, 1887.


Court yards of the Treasury build
ing excavating for the new vault, for
which Congress appropriated $27, $40
This will be the largest single money
vault known 1t is to be large enough
to hold one hundred million silver dol
lars, and its full capacity will doubtless
be tested by the constant accumulation
from an annual production of not less
than twenty-four millions of dollars
The structure is to be entirely un
derground; nothing is TO appear on the
surface to indicate the depository of
so muchwcalth. The vault will be
lined with an iron case, and will be
divided into sixteen compartments sep
arated hy iron lattice partitions
There are to be no dark corners in this
building; the ouon iattl,c work Is
adapted 50 that the eye can range
through all the compartments at one
glance. The entrance will be through
the sub-basement of the Treasury
building, which is at all times thor
oughly guarded, and dozen different
men will be required to open the vault,
several series of unlocking being neces-
sary, and one person will only have the
secret of one combination lock. All
the known checks and securities will
be applied, and by means of clcck
work and electricity there will be some
of the locks which will open at certain
hours of the day only to the Treasurer
: Of the United States.
!; The silver dollars IN their new hab
itation will be piled up in canvas bags
holding $1,000 each, one on top of the
n other, as IS now done in the existing
u vaults.
The recent deaths, so close together
e of two prominent journalists, reminds
o one of the deep swathe that has ST
n lately been cut into the profession O
II journalism. 1t is but brief periot
e since Adams of the Washington Star
'e and Billy Copeland of the New Yorl
le journal of Commerce, We're taken al
e most with pencil in hand, so suddenly
y the summons came; and all these men
le toned were not only connected by th
L bonds of fellowship incident to com
T. M On brotherhood, but were more int
IL mately associated by ties of closes
IN friendship.
6 A prominent politician and membe
of Congress now in the city, says tina
,h for nine months in the year Washing
he ton is the prettiest and pleasantes
lie place in the country, and only need
H. better hotel Accommodations and larg
tn hall suitable for Conventions, to max
a it the very place for the next and SUI
he ceeding National Conventions.
ia AS the physical beauties of Washin!
ed ton are already beginning to be al
IN preciated by the country, a glance
90 the efforts being made in the directio
of moral cleanliness and beauty in Il
,rs Nations Capital would not be amis
-, The Women's Christiau Tcmperan
mt Union has become power i'll the Ian
and by means of their steady adhe
mo ence to well-devised plans of actio
7e and of persistence strikingly illr
,ed trative of their courage in attempts
49,, ameliorate the condition of their fello
,or beings;-the women of this city ha
Il at last succeeded in entirely closing t
~ bar-rooms here on Sunday, not only
name but in fact. They are also nj
engaged in an endeavor to suppress t
:. exhibition of questionable pictul
used in advertising, which while tn
w attract the eye and thus serve th'
purpose, also exert a more baleful
fuence in leading the imagination
40 our youth into evil channels.
A Probation Agency, for the bene
' of first offenders, has been recently
tablished, whereby unfortunate you
who have been brought before the ]
lice Court may be afforded an oppor
e"' nifty Of bettering themselves, til
e'i Withholding from them the stigma
.ih0 conviction of crime, and sentence
'oo association with old criminals, and
o'n deavoring to procure honest empl
-us- ment for those in need.
'oo A Women's Refuge is in success
'om m operation, also, where any may find
''i' welcome smile and helpful hand.
have cause for congratulation, Il
be- there is so much of good in humani
ac- and that we live in an age of char
ork bleness for the sinner, as well as
he reprobation for the sin.
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